Although
cultural studies originated with strong Marxist foundations, many critics
lament that in recent decades class analysis has been subsumed under other
categories of analysis--e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, nation -- or even
disappeared altogether from cultural studies.This Speaker Series aims to bring "class" back in to cultural
studies by featuring scholarship that focuses on the interface of socioeconomic
and cultural analyses.Themes include
class consciousness and identity; class conflict; class mobility; signifiers of
class; labor and unionism; mechanisms of capital accumulation; poverty;
cultures and images of class; class and globalization; class and
race/gender/nation; comparative systems of class.